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WHO sets up independent panel to review its handling of COVID-19 pandemic

July 13, 2020
WHO
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments.
  • The panel will be co-chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
  • The panel will provide an interim report to an annual meeting of health ministers in November and present a substantive report in May 2021.

SEBI Revamps advisory committee on mutual funds

July 13, 2020
SEBI
  • The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has re-constituted its advisory committee on mutual funds that advises the capital markets regulator on matters related to regulation and development of the mutual fund industry.
  • The revamped advisory committee on mutual funds has 20-member and will be headed Usha Thorat, former deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Roles & Responsibilities of the committee:

  • Issues related to regulation and development of the mutual fund industry.
  • Disclosure requirements and measures required for a change in the legal framework to introduce simplification and transparency in mutual fund regulations

NTPC Ltd won 2019 CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2020

July 12, 2020
ntpc award
  • National Thermal Power Corporation  Ltd, a central PSU under Minister of Power and India’s largest power generation company, has won the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019, under the outstanding Accomplishment in Corporate Excellence Category.
  • NTPC has received Commendation for Significant Achievement in the category of CSR.

ADB Renews Pact with IEA to collaborate on Energy Sector

July 12, 2020
abd iea agreement
  • ADB has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Energy Agency (IEA) to further scale up collaboration and advance progress on sustainability on energy sector resilience in the Asia and the Pacific region.
  • The three-year agreement, upto 2023, will enable the two organisations to share knowledge and best practice in energy sector data and analysis, on-the-ground engagement, capacity building, technology and innovation among other areas.

Qualcomm to invest Rs 730 crore in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms

July 12, 2020
jio qualcomm
  • US chipmaking giant Qualcomm’s venture arm has invested Rs 730 crore (approximately $97 million) in Jio Platforms for a 0.15 percent stake. This is the 13th foreign investment in Reliance’s $65 billion digital business in a span of 12 weeks.
  • The investment will deepen the ties between Qualcomm and Jio Platforms to support Jio Platforms on its journey to roll out advanced 5G infrastructure and services for Indian customers.

T-Hub partners with MeitY and Digital India to lead program for hardware startups

July 12, 2020
t-hub
  • T-Hub announced its partnership with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Digital India.T-Hub will lead Digital India’s Scale Up program for hardware and IoT startups across India.
  • MeitY and Digital India aim to provide scale up opportunities to the startups and make them ready in terms of product, investment and new market access.

NTPC’s Singrauli Unit 1 emerges as India’s top-performing plant in first quarter of FY21

July 12, 2020
National Thermal Power Corporation Lts. (NTPC)
  • The state-run electricity giant National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Singrauli’s Unit 1 has emerged as the top-performing unit in the country in the first quarter of the financial year 2020-21 as per the data released by Central Electricity Authority.
  • Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. The power plant is the first power plant of NTPC.

Russia becomes first nation to complete clinical trials of Coronavirus vaccine

July 12, 2020
coronavirus vaccine
  • Russia has become the first nation to successfully complete the human trials of COVID vaccine. Russia’s COVID-19/coronavirus vaccine has proven to be effective, as per the results of the trials.
  • Chief Researcher Elena Smolyarchuk informed on July 12, 2020 that the human trials of Russia’s COVID vaccine have been completed and the volunteers will be discharged soon. Smolyarchuk is the head of Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Russia’s Sechenov University

India’s First State-Level ‘E-Lok Adalat’ conducted by Chhattisgarh High Court

July 12, 2020
e-lok-adalat
  • The Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court P.R. Ramachandra Menon inaugurated the first State Level E-Lok Adalat of India from the Conference Hall of the Chhattisgarh State’s High Court in Bilaspur district.  The E-Lok Adalat was conducted through video conferencing.
  • The E-Lok Adalat was conducted in 195 benches across the state of Chhattisgarh. A total of 3133 cases were placed before the 195 benches out which 848 cases were attended by 24 benches from the capital city of Chhattisgarh Raipur.

All India Tiger Census 2018 sets new Guinness World Record for largest camera-trap wildlife survey

July 12, 2020
tigers
  • The 4th edition of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018 has created the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.
  • The All India Tiger Estimation is conducted every four year since 2006, by the National Tiger Conservation Authority with technical support from the Wildlife Institute of India.
  • In the fourth cycle of the survey, conducted in 2018-19, Camera traps (outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by) were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites.
  • A total of 34,858,623 photographs of wildlife were captured by the 26,838 camera traps installed.
  • Of the total photographs, 76,651 were tigers and 51,777 were leopards while the remaining were other native fauna.

World’s second-largest data centre inaugurated near Mumbai

July 11, 2020
world's second largest data centre

Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that world’s second-largest data centre inaugurated in Mumbai which is developed by the Hiranandani Group.

Rajasthan launches campaign “Pure for Sure” to ensure purity of milk, dairy products

July 11, 2020
pure for sure
  • Rajasthan launched a week long campaign named ”Pure for Sure” to ensure purity of milk and its products.
  • Under the campaign samples of milk and dairy products will be collected for testing at Food Testing Laboratory available at the divisional level and the food safety officers have been directed to send the campaign report to the headquarters on daily basis.

Himachal’s Nadaun Police Station Among Best In Country

July 11, 2020
Nadaun Police station
  • Himachal Pradesh Nadaun Police Station is declared as one of the best in the country.
  • The ranking of police stations is carried out by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Himachal DGP Sanjay Kundu presented this certificate of excellence received by him from the Union home minister to the CM.

New startup policy of Uttar Pradesh gets Cabinet nod

July 11, 2020
Startup policy uttar pradesh
  • The state Cabinet cleared the new Uttar Pradesh Startup policy 2020.
  • The objective of the policy is to promote start-ups in the state, establish at least one incubator in each district and 100 incubators across the state, create an ecosystem for establishment of 10,000 staround artups etc.
  • The new policy will be applicable for the next five years.

Skill Development Ministry Launches AI-based portal ASEEM to bridge Demand-Supply gap of Skilled Workforce

July 11, 2020
ASEEM portal
  • Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched ‘Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal on 10 July 2020 to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.
  • ASEEM is an Artificial Intelligence-based platform to improve the information flow and bridge the demand-supply gap in the skilled workforce market.The portal will strengthen the career pathways of skilled workers by exploring emerging job opportunities especially in the post COVID era.
  • ASEEM has been developed and will be managed by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based Company Betterplace

Google Plus is now ‘Google Currents’ in playstore

July 11, 2020
google currents
  • Google has officially shut down its ‘Google Plus’ social networking platform and it has rebranded the app as “Google Currents”.
  • Google Currents is a platform which enables its users to connect with their colleagues, exchange documents and interact with like-minded people who have similar interests

ISRO prepares to launch brazil’s amazonia-1 satellite aboard PSLV in august this year

July 11, 2020
amazonia-1
  • The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to lift off Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite next month onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
  • The Amazonia-1 satellite which PSLV will launch will help in monitoring and observing the deforestation of the Amazon region.
  • The Brazilian satellite has been locally designed and tested in Brazil. It will be the first satellite for Earth observation.
  • The Amazonia-1 launch is among the 36 space and satellite missions ISRO has planned over the next two years

PM Modi inaugurated 750 MW Madhya Pradesh Solar Project

July 11, 2020
solar panels
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the nation the 750 MW Solar Project set up at Rewa, Madhya Pradesh on 9th July 2020.
  • The Project comprises of three solar generating units of 250 MW each located on a 500-hectare plot of land situated inside a solar park (total area 1500 hectare).The Rewa Solar Project was the first solar project in the country to break the grid parity barrier. This project will reduce carbon emission equivalent to approx. 15 lakh ton of CO2 per year.
  • The entire cost of the Solar Power Project is worth around Rs 4000 crore.
  • 24 percent of the power generated by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Plant will be supplied to Delhi Metro while the remaining 76 percent of energy will be supplied to the state DISCOMs of Madhya Pradesh.

IIT-Hyderabad collaborates with NVIDIA to establish India’s first AI research center

July 11, 2020
India's first AI technology Centre
  • The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) has collaborated with NVIDIA, a US-based multinational technology company, to establish India’s first ‘NVIDIA AI Technology Centre’(NVAITC) to accelerate research on Artificial Intelligence and its commercial adoption.
  • The centre will focus on advancing AI research in the areas of Agriculture and Smart Cities besides Language Understanding, increasing crop yield, support safer transportation systems and better ways of managing traffic, among others.

Loyal Textile Mills Limited launched the world’s first reusable PPE kit with Triple Viral Shield Technology

July 11, 2020
reusable ppe kit
  • On 9th July 2020 Loyal Textile Mills Limited launched Viral Shield, a line of COVID-19 anti-viral, reusable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), masks and protective fashion wear range.
  • The series has been launched in collaboration with Reliance Industries India and HeiQ from Switzerland.
  • The reusable masks, garments, and PPE kits are made with the Viroblock Technology of HeiQ Materials AG.

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